Iraq Gears Up For Late-year Push To Retake Mosul From Islamic State

Iraq Gears Up For Late-year Push To Retake Mosul From Islamic State

The U.S.-led war on Islamic State has depleted the group’s funds, leadership and foreign fighters, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his “caliphate” two years ago. The jihadist insurgents have lost more than half the territory they seized in Iraq...

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